Thank you very much Adrian for unravelling part of the mystery... On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:55:50AM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: > > I thought this question was not important as this part of code is relatively > > stable and unmodified for a long time, but there are too many possible > > potential reasons, that I am really curious to know the truth. > > > > Why can't it be located under the "drivers" directory? Is there an overall > > architecture design into what qualify to go into "drivers" directory? > > Nevertheless all that exists in sound subbranch are still qualified as drivers, > > right? > >... > > sound/ was moved out of drivers/ in IIRC 2.5.3 when ALSA was added. > > You might search for the discussions back then, but AFAIR there was > (and is) no strong reason in either direction. > > > THanks. > > cu > Adrian > > -- > > "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out > of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. > "Only a promise," Lao Er said. > Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed > > -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
